Rest assured, procrastination is not about laziness or lack of self-control.

Here is the most important and concise list of principles I can find for young people considering marriage.

It’s a tragedy when a moviemaker causes the story’s theme to become the story itself and dominate over the plot like a pack of wolves.

The modern conservative movement is in line with the liberal movement of the 1960s.

If you ask your readers too many questions, they may end up feeling let down or even abandoned.

I learned over the years that our mother was never the meanest, but the best.

Few articles are written about how to get fictional characters to act. This article explains how to do it.

It didn’t take me more than a half-hour of casual Internet research to understand why we’re not recycling plastics like we wish we could.

The rules of English grammar provide us with question marks, exclamation marks, and quotation marks, but no assumption mark.

Reciting tales has been a part of human life from the earliest discovered cave drawings until the present day.

In our lives do we seek to personify the attributes of the Great Creator or the Great Copier?

I offer only the fun bits. Enough for you to be popular at parties, but not sufficient to pass a college course in literature.

A story that is not relatable is of little use to anyone no matter how clearly it is written.

Most of the time, your life is how you want it to be. You are the reason your life is the way it is.

Critiquing other people’s manuscripts of fictional works is fun for me because I start off with a declaration saying, “My comments are my...

When I’m reading a story, and one character says to another, “We’ve talked about this,” my mind is thrown from the story.

Books written on the proper role of government fill entire library shelves. One could study the wisdom of the world’s greatest political...

If you want your readers to hate your scenes, make every character behave foolishly.

If you’ve spent any time studying the rules of writing fiction, you’ll know that stories must have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Howeve

Why am I having difficulty picking ten villains? I believe it's because fiction must be entertaining, and that includes its villains.

I suspect that angels can be far more terrifying than anything you have come across in your lifetime.

On one occasion, I asked Mother if I could have one candy bar. Just one. To my surprise she said, "Yes."

I suppose most people would say the most important words in marriage are, “I love you,” or “You’re right, dear,” or “Please, forgive me

My twenty-one-year-old son asked me to pick my ten favorite movies of all time. He didn’t tell me why, so I cannot tell you the reason.